Today in our poetry study we learned about cinquains and diamantes. I have to admit I had never heard of either.

It turned out to be kind of fun. We each wrote several of each.

A cinquain is a five-line poem with the following pattern:

• one-word topic
• two adjectives describing the topic
• three verbs telling what the topic does
• a thought about the one-word topic
• same one-word topic or synonym

Sample (No LOL allowed, please!)

Kitten

Cute, fluffy,

Crawling, sneaking, licking

Mouse hunter

Cat

A diamante is kind of like a cinquain only longer. It contains the following:

• Noun (line 7 will be an antonym to this)
• two adjectives describing the noun
• three verbs ending in -ing describing the noun
• two nouns relating to or describing the word from line 1 and two nouns that relate to or describe the antonym in line 7
• two adjectives describing the word from line 7
• an antonym for the noun in line 1

Sample (again, it is strictly forbidden to make ha ha! about this)

Sky

Blue, spacious

Raining, clearing, shining

Big clear, firm green

Growing, curving, climbing

Green, brown

Earth

Now you try it. Fun, isn't it?!